Triangle is excited to announce in-person Spring Open Studios

Saturday, April 23 from 12 - 6 PM!

In conjunction with Art in Dumbo Open Studios 2022

Featuring:

Eric Ramos Guerrero, Leo Li Chen,
Jessica Segall, Yu Ji, Isaac Pool and Wu Chien Hsing

All guests will be required to wear masks, and show proof of vaccination at the door, if you have any questions please contact mail@triangleartsnyc.org.

Isaac Pool's approach is rooted in a promiscuous crossing of disciplines including performance, sculpture, and poetry. They have roots in punk performance and nightlife and first performed in clubs as a teenager wearing costumes made from trash alongside songs and videos produced in their parents’ basement. Pool's work challenges limits of identification and embraces fantasy as a tool for self-determination and social survival – a way of rerouting shared dissonances into assemblages of belonging. Their work is both materially engaged within the social dimensions it occupies and perversely sentimental, embracing and questioning feminist criticality with humor and ambivalence.

Using landscape and bureaucracy as material, Jessica Segall explores belonging through inter-species, site-specific work. Her work plays with both the risk of engaging with the environment and the vulnerability of the environment itself. Recent exhibitions include Coreana Museum of Art, The Fries Museum, The National Museum of American Jewish History and screenings at COP 26 and TED. Jessica received grants from The Pollock Krasner Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts and Art Matters, and attended artist residencies at Skowhegan, MacDowell and Van Eyck Academie. Her work has been in Cabinet Magazine, The New York Times and Sculpture Magazine. She received her MFA from Columbia University in 2010 and lives in Brooklyn. Currently, her work is screening at The Kim Dong Ho Art Museum in Ansan, Korea, Millwork in collaboration with The Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska, and at ZAZ in Times Square, New York.

Leo Li Chen is an independent curator and researcher based in Beijing and New York. He worked as the Research Director at Magician Space, Beijing, and as an independent curator in Hong Kong and mainland China. His main research focuses on geopolitics and performativity, to explore the complexity of identity and subjectivity that transcends geographical barriers. He has curated multiple exhibitions, including “The Racing Will Continue, The Dancing Will Stay” (Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou, 2019); “Today Could Have Been a Happy Day” (Taikang Space, Beijing, 2018); “That Has Been and Maybe Again” (Para Site, Hong Kong, 2016); “Adrift” (OCAT, Shenzhen, 2016), and so on. He was a resident researcher at Asia Art Archive in 2016, and MMCA Korea in 2019. This residency is made possible in part by a grant from the Asian Cultural Council to advance international understanding through cultural exchange in the arts.

Eric Ramos Guerrero is a multidisciplinary artist based in New York City whose work investigates The West through landscapes of suburban California, the US/Mexican border and the tropical spaces of western expansion. Eric exhibits work internationally, including The Drawing Center NY, El Museo De Barrio NY, The Knockdown Center NY, Beaux Arts FR, Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, White Box NY, ICPNY, Inside-Out Museum Beijing, Mathilde Hatzenberger Gallery Belgium, and Green Papaya Philippines. Eric has been a resident artist at The Drawing Center, Marble House Project Residency, and Triangle Arts Organization. He received his MFA from Columbia University, BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and BA from San Diego State University.

Yu Ji is known for the diversity of her practice, working primarily in sculpture and installation, as well as performance and video. Her long-term interest has been in transforming ongoing investigations into specific spaces that become charged with geographical and historical narratives. She frequently conducts field research, and creates interventions through the vehicle of the body at different sites. Taking the unique materiality of things as a point of departure, and taking the sculptural as her primary form, Yu Ji has been developing her artistic language in relation to everyday life. Reflecting on and moderating the fragile presence of the human body in relation to objects found in their everyday environments. This residency is made possible in part by a grant from the Asian Cultural Council to advance international understanding through cultural exchange in the arts.

Wu Chien Hsing's practice uses "domestic objects" to inscribe the memories of his own family history interwoven with the histories of the average middle-class family in the context of Taiwan's modernization. Wu Chien Hsing's practice is motivated by self-exploration. and creative methods that transform personal empirical memory, converting the artist's curiosity of time and memory into a medium that transforms life experiences. Wu Chien-Hsing was born in Taiwan in 1987 and grew up in Puli of Nantou County, in central Taiwan. Wu Chien-Hsing graduated from Chinese Culture University in Taipei with a Bachelor's degree in 2011 and then obtained his Master's degree of Arts from Taipei National University of the Arts in 2017. This residency is made possible in part with a grant from The Taipei Cultural Center in New York.